NEC Project Manager - Highways (Senior)

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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today's mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world's growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.

Our teams are involved in some of the UK's most complex and stimulating projects that are diverse and technically demanding. We have an enviable reputation in the delivery of such schemes working with the UK's largest residential developers and housebuilders.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager with a good background in Highway related projects to join our Highways Consultancy division to support the Development Led Infrastructure team where you will provide focussed delivery on major schemes in the surrounding areas. The successful candidate must have experience of Highways, Civil Engineering and be very competent with using the NEC form of contract. It is intended that the role will offer the opportunity to progress your career as your experience grows within our business.

Role accountabilities:

As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you'll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you'll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.

• Develop implementation strategies for delivery of strategic infrastructure projects
• Work within project and financial objectives to produce plans, schedules and track budgets
• Management of statutory consents
• Analyse and review a range of data to identify key themes and trends and use the outputs to produce recommendations that support project decision-making
• Identify and present any project risks or issues to ensure the project is not adversely impacted
• Use knowledge and experience to review project processes and policies, providing advice to support management
• Provide subject matter advice in order to support delivery and ensure there is alignment between policy and operational practice
• Collaborate with stakeholders and third party contractors, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations
• Set up and delivery best practice systems and controls.
• Lead the service delivery, and maintain and strengthen the client relationship
• Represent the company in a professional and diligent manner, meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients
• Work collaboratively with the client and become the focal point for communication.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven Project Management background aligned to large residential and mixed use developments
• Degree educated in a related discipline
• APM, MRICS or ICE Qualified.
• High level of knowledge and proven experience of working with NEC form of contract.
• Knowledge of fundamental PM systems and procedures in the construction industry.
• In depth knowledge of different construction processes.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.